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Hartford Travel Guide

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City Introduction

Hartford is the capital of the US state of Connecticut. The area was explored in the early 17th century, and the Dutch West India Company established Fort Hoop in the southern part of present-day Hartford. English settlers came here in 1635 and founded the actual settlement, which in 1637 was named Hartford. In 1662, the city became the capital of the colony of Connecticut, and in the following decades and throughout the 18th century, the city grew to around 3,000 inhabitants.

From the middle of the 1800s, Hartford developed into a city with a significant industry, and among the many companies were Samuel Colt’s gun production and Albert Pope’s bicycle factory. The development brought more inhabitants, and from 13,500 citizens in 1850, the number rose to almost 80,000 in the year 1900. Growth continued through the 1900s, when downtown’s modern skyline with office buildings was also developed.

Today, Hartford is a city with an interesting downtown area with several sights from the city’s history. Many of them are located along or close to Main Street, which is Hartford’s north-south thoroughfare. Between modern high-rises is the Old State House, built 1792-1796 as the state of Connecticut’s second newly constructed government building. It was Charles Bulfinch, who designed the building in the so-called Federal style with a beautiful interior.

If you walk south along Main Street from the Old State House, you will reach Atheneum Square, where the skyscraper Travelers Tower stands tall with its 160 meters in height. The skyscraper was built 1906-1919, and it opened as the tallest building in New England and as the seventh tallest in the world. South of the square, you can visit the Wadsworth Atheneum, which is an art museum with large collections of, for example, European Baroque and French and American Impressionists.

South of the Wadsworth Atheneum is the Burr Mall Park and Hartford’s beaux-arts city hall, which was built in 1915. If you go west instead, you come to green areas where the Center Church is located. It was built in 1807 as the fourth church in Hartford’s oldest congregation, whose history dates to 1636. Several governors are buried in the adjoining cemetery, as well as Thomas Hooker, who founded The Connecticut Colony.

Continuing west through the large Bushnell Park, you come to Hartford’s probably best-known building, the Connecticut State Capitol. The State Capitol is the state’s government building and thereby the seat of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The building was built 1871-1878 in the late Victorian Eastlake style with the use of a marble cladding and large-scale decoration, which includes many statues and a beautiful rotunda under the equally fine dome.

South of the Connecticut State Capitol is the Museum of Connecticut History, which can be considered the state’s national museum with fine exhibitions about the state’s history and development as well as its role in the United States. From here you can continue to the Mark Twain House and Museum, which was home to Samuel Langhorne Clemens and his family from 1874 to 1891. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as Mark Twain, and the house is open as a museum.

There are also good opportunities for a trip in recreational settings in and around Hartford. You can, for example, take a walk along the Riverwalk, which is close to downtown along the Connecticut River just east of downtown. To the west is Elizabeth, home to the city’s famous Rose Garden, where approximately 800 varieties of roses on approximately 15,000 bushes welcome visitors. The Rose Garden was established in 1904 and is the oldest municipal garden of its kind in the United States.

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Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Providence

Providence is the capital and largest city of the US state of Rhode Island. The town was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who founded America’s first Baptist church in the town two years later. Providence grew, and after the American War of Independence in the 18th century, it was one of the ten largest cities in the United States, with more than 7,500 inhabitants.

In a few decades the population doubled, and through much of the 19th century Market Square was the center of the city’s political and social life. Providence was industrialized as well, and around the year 1900 more than 175,000 citizens lived here, and the city was one of the most prosperous in the United States.

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Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Boston

Boston is a city in the state of Massachusetts and thereby in so-called New England, and it is not simply because it is located in the northeastern corner of the United States close to Europe. You feel British culture here more than anywhere else in the United States, but of course the many benefits of American culture are also part of daily life and the cityscape here.

Boston’s many quaint streets and neighborhoods also hold much of the American independence history in the years of struggle with England. It was in the northeastern United States that the cradle of the present United States was, and this is where the rebellion against the colonial power of England took place.

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Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, USA

New York City

New York City is a metropolis, also known as the Big Apple, and it is the epitome of the United States and much of what the United States stands for in diversity, opportunities and freedom. It is an international metropolis that attracts tourists from all over the world all year round, and there is always something exciting to see and do in this, the largest American city.

Upon entering the city the Statue of Liberty stands as a symbol of the land of the free and the American dream, which has always been popular among immigrants and tourists alike. The statue goddess overlooks Manhattan’s mix of the many classic and modern skyscrapers, bridges, rivers and many other sights and features.

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Overview of Hartford

You can follow the trail of several presidents a short distance south from the Eagle Hotel on Main Street. Here is Phenix Hall, where Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt have given speeches. You can walk to the north end of Main Street to the Pierce Manse building as well, an on-site house museum where President Franklin Pierce lived for a few years. The house was built in the 1830s and moved to its current location in 1971.

About the Concord travel guide

Contents: Tours in the city + tours in the surrounding area
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Author: Stig Albeck
Publisher: Vamados.com
Language: English

About the travel guide

The Concord travel guide gives you an overview of the sights and activities of the American city. Read about top sights and other sights, and get a tour guide with tour suggestions and detailed descriptions of all the city’s most important churches, monuments, mansions, museums, etc.

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